Chateau Chavaniac-Lafayette, France

The chateau of Chavaniac-Lafayette is the ancestral home of Lafayette. It is a place of wonder that symbolizes the ideals of the Lafayette family. When Adrienne goes to the chateau for the first time, years into their marriage, she finds comfort, even though she is dealing with her husband having an affair (237). The first time she enters the chateau, she thinks, "This is a place one can hear God..." (238). For Adrienne, her husband's home acts like a church nestled into the mountains.

Years later, Beatrice turns the chateau into a preventorium with the help of Emily, Clara Simon, and Marie-Louise LeVerrier (373-375). They heavily reconstruct portions of the chateau and add a new addition for homeless children that cannot wait until the end of the war for aid (376). Marthe is one of the first children admitted to the preventorium. For the orphaned children, the chateau mainly...